Paula Oliver puts the boot in again about Cullen’s lacklustre performance yesterday to 30 (probably coerced) people who struggled along to listen to him whine about investment in the future like buying 18th century technology far above the odds.

As Paula said Cullen could only pull 30 people @ $75 pp to a lunch to listen to Cullen. By comparison, I’ve been told that it is a full house (260) @ $75 to a breakfast to hear John Key next Fri – the annual post -budget breakfast!

Right now having a Labour Minister speak at any function is the kiss of death. Cullen couldn’t pull the skin off a rice pudding let alone a decent crowd and Clark has to go overseas to get any applause.

As much at home writing editorials as being the subject of them, Cam has won awards, including the Canon Media Award for his work on the Len Brown/Bevan Chuang story. When he’s not creating the news, he tends to be in it, with protagonists using the courts, media and social media to deliver financial as well as death threats.

They say that news is something that someone, somewhere, wants kept quiet. Cam Slater doesn’t do quiet and, as a result, he is a polarising, controversial but highly effective journalist who takes no prisoners.